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Field's asking price was high: $1,250,000, plus an assurance that the buyer had $500,000 in working capital and was "a decent fellow." Would he sell to someone who didn't share PM's Left-Field politics? Said Field: "Out of respect to the name PM,I would not sell to a known Communist." Apart from that, he added, the future owner's political convictions are "none of my business...
That is the shape of the next ten years-a shape which every decent man wishes were different. It will not be changed by wishing...
...Casual & Decent. The 20-minute film opens in the living room of a respectable, middle-class family. Opening his textbook to the picture of a naked Indian, the boy asks his father why savages didn't wear clothes while civilized people do. That starts a family bull-session about sex, to make the audience realize that sex can be casually and decently discussed...
When Presidential Press Secretary Charlie Ross read about this striped-pants stupidity, he took the clipping in to the boss. He told Harry Truman that he was "damned sick & tired of this guilt by association and pillorying of decent citizens." The President agreed, picked up a phone, and told State to okay Harry Martin. This week, Delegate Martin flies the Atlantic to join the rest of the team...
every publication "says" something about the world. The Manchester Guardian has a personality, a tone, that says: "People are decent; if they would only realize that and trust each other, we should get along better." The accents of the New York Daily News say: "Look out, bud; they're going to gyp you." The Times says: "It's all very difficult, but with close attention to the homework, we may figure it out." Does TIME say: "It's a dreadful and wonderful world; some of it makes sense, some nonsense; to tell which is which is what...